​I hope that you have had a fantastic week!It was a privilege for us to take part in 'Thy Kingdom Come', a global prayer initiative led by the Archbishop's of Canterbury and York. As well as hosting the Pentecost Thy Kingdom Come Beacon event in York Minster, there were several evangelistic events put on by the church family, including many Belfrey Groups. Thank you so much for joining in with this imitative and sharing the good news of Jesus Christ in our region! A particular thanks to Lee Kirkby and his team who ran a fantastic Royal Wedding Street Party at The Storehouse and to Roger Simpson for coming to speak to us at our 9am and 11am Congregations. It was so good to have Roger back with us for the morning.

The Archbishop of York has sent a message to all who joined in with Thy Kingdom Come:

Dear friends,

It has been an absolute joy to join the global wave of prayer through Thy Kingdom Come initiative.

The Holy Spirit rekindled the fire of his love in the people I met and worshipped with. Empowering, equipping and commissioning the followers of Jesus Christ to pray for others to know His love.

Often it was the chance encounters with people I met where I saw lives transformed, as they encountered the Risen Christ and knew the power of the Holy Spirit descend on them.

Three people out of the five that I put on my prayer list at last year’s Beacon Event came to York Minster and gave their lives to Christ. What an encouragement!

I am still praying for the other two and the five I started praying for on Ascension Day. Our God is awesome!

With every blessing,

Archbishop John Sentamu

We are thankful for the Archbishop's leadership and passion for the Gospel!

This weekend is of course a Bank Holiday weekend and is the start of half term. For those of you that are managing to get some time off over the weekend or the week, I hope you have some good time with friends and family.I passionately believe that all of the baptised are in full time ministry whether that is teaching, health care, being a parent, church leadership or whatever it is that God has called you to. To the teachers among us: Thank you so much for all you do in your ministry of teaching the young people in this country - enjoy a well deserved break this half term holiday!

As the weather gets warmer our attention turns towards the summer. New Wine Inspire is happening again in Thirsk from the 17th - 21st August. There will be fantastic children's and youth work, great worship and bible teaching. Lots of The Belfrey family are going and will be camping together. Why not join us? All of the details about how to book on are at the bottom of this message.This summer our brilliant youth team are running Youth Fest again. Have a look at what they are getting up to, pray for them and if you are a youth - book on! If you are a parent or guardian encourage your young people to get involved in this great event.

Finally, this Sunday we are looking at the last part of Acts 2 together and Revd Jim Roberts and guest speaker Sarah Yardley will be teaching the Bible to us. Communion will be celebrated at 9am and at XI we are baptising a young lad who has recently invited Jesus into his life. It is so wonderful to be seeing so many young people have their lives changed by Jesus.